The West and the Guest
Let’s start with a simple thought experiment. You invite a guest into your house, give him a room, and make all your facilities available to him. You find him a job — it might be one that needs to be done, it might not — but if he runs into difficulties or loses his job you provide him with the wherewithal he requires. Eventually he brings his family over for an extended visit which turns out to be permanent and before you know it an entire part of your house has been sealed off or, as in some instances, has become a domestic no-go zone.
Your new guests refuse to participate in your home life. They deplete your budget, may not even learn your language, install a V-chip in your computer to prevent the normal range of your communications, and in the course of time begin agitating to introduce a new set of house rules which you, the proprietor, are expected to abide by. It is quite possible that you return one evening to discover that your kids have been traumatized and the house is in shambles. It may happen as you set off for work in the morning, you find your car has been torched.
Clearly, the allegory may not be exact in all its particulars, though it is on the whole a valid, if somewhat lurid, picture of what goes by the name of multiculturalism. What we call “multiculturalism” is not to be construed as identical to “diversity.” The former allows the ethnocratic retention of the in-group’s language, justice system, customs, and politics in semi-autonomous enclaves, as, for example, the 751 zones urbaines sensibles in France, Tower Hamlets in London and Bury Park in Luton, so-called “no drive areas” like Kreuzberg in Berlin, off-limit areas in Brussels, Amsterdam’s Slotervaart district, the Rosengard quarter in Malmo, and many other high-risk neighborhoods in cities across the face of Europe, most virtual Islamic republics and many prone to communal violence; the latter assumes the orderly and beneficial mingling of different peoples in the public agora, which is the case with most immigrant communities. When we say “multiculturalism,” we mean primarily a social project which approves of the voluntary segregation of many Muslim communities to pursue a life apart from, and all too often hostile to or in actual conflict with, the heritage lifestyle that has welcomed them.
The original theory was that something like a social paradise could be created by good will and horticultural sentiment alone. The garden metaphor became extremely popular. Liberals were convinced that their vision of society as a sort of trellised garden, sheltering a great variety of exotic plants all jumbled together and left uncultivated, would enable its inhabitants to flourish without root competition. But this was a merely emotional construct that would lead in practice to rampant parasitism and the degradation of the spirit of cultural autonomy and integrity. It is as if we were moving down the phylogenetic scale toward a condition of simplistic psychic organization, resembling James Cameron’s Navi worshipping their holy tree in a fictional Pandora. Indeed, what the Swiss legionnaire poet Arthur Nicolet wrote of his country soon applied to the West in general.
L’Helvetie est un paradis
Ou l’esprit marche à quattre pattes.
(Switzerland is a paradise
Where the spirit walks on four feet.)
In any event, one of the most bizarre aspects of multiculti is that so preposterous a situation was long regarded as acceptable, morally justifiable, and even inevitable. Such behavior on the part of the proprietor, gradually surrendering deed and title to an interloper with no lien whatsoever on the property, furnishes a practical illustration of mental deterioration, if not a working definition of galloping obtuseness. And that it took more than a generation before the owner of the house, or his inheritors, began even to consider the prospect of self-restitution, of reclaiming one’s property from a guest who was on his way to taking possession of the premises, may offer a sliver of hope but, given what looks like an approaching fait accompli, not much consolation.
Still, better late than never, as one says, though better early than late would have been preferable. Anyone with a single grey cell in his head would have realized at the outset that the multicultural experiment, as originally conceived, was a social cul-de-sac, a license freely given for the seizure of natural rights and eviction of the host from a portion of his dwelling — perhaps, ultimately, to become a paying, second-class occupant in what was once his own house.
The issue is compounded, however, by a powerful liberal-left orthodoxy that has invested its self-importance, ideological convictions, and intellectual life, if not its very survival, in maintaining the multicultural burlesque. This is especially the case with the European Union which, as Andrew Bostom writes, “is a corrupt and undemocratic superstate with totalitarian aspirations” that needs millions of Muslim immigrants “to secure the power base for the unaccountable bureaucrats who now oversee what passes for European governance.” In America as well, dissent is being quashed “in schools and on college campuses, and politically incorrect expression is cause for dismissal from both public and private employment” (email communication). A restraining order recently issued by a U.S. district court against Oklahoma’s anti-shari’a law is another case in point. In effect, challenging the multicultural paradigm is a good way of tempting professional suicide or official retribution.
Thus, the hysterical reaction among the denizens of the left to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s tardy but clear-headed and realistic assessment that multikulti “has failed, utterly failed.” She was, of course, alluding to Germany’s restive Muslim/Turkish immigrant population. Thilo Sarrazin, anti-Islamic author of the recently published Deutschland schafft sich ab (Germany Does Away with Itself), was unceremoniously fired from his executive post at the Deutsche Bundesbank, despite the polls that indicate he has the popular will on his side. Austrian “whistleblower” Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Woolf is currently being prosecuted by the Austrian government for conducting public seminars on the menace of Islam. Of course, the trial and trials of Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who wishes to restore his country to a semblance of sanity, to take back the house, as it were, has become an international flashpoint. “Europe is running adrift,” remarked Oskar Freysinger, leader of the Swiss People’s Party, in a recent lecture to the Flemish Parliament, “not because of fanatics who occupy the land, but because of cowards who let them do it.” They have permitted “beachheads of Islam” in what Muslims designate as the territory of the infidel, in other words, the countries to which they have emigrated. There can be little doubt that Muslim “emigration” (or “immigration”) is a politically correct euphemism for “infiltration.”
We are now on very delicate ground as we try to address the central question, which is: what to do? We are a liberal democracy and are bound to uphold the axial principles that sustain it: freedom of speech and of the press, freedom of assembly, the dispensation of impartial justice, habeas corpus, the right to civil and legal protections. These are codes and scruples that cannot be easily bent or violated in endeavoring to deal with the problem. Additionally, we have a degenerate and poorly educated political echelon and a cynical left-wing media apparatus that have together risen to the defense of the same Muslim groups who have exacerbated the dilemma from which we suffer. Multiculturalism is, for them, a sacred cow that must be worshipped, fed, and given dung-freedom in our thoroughfares.
This would make a really cool, short documentary movie…it’s loaded. I for one, have been waiting to see an article like this. You did it Mr. Solway and thank you for that.
Multiculti ain’t so cool…neither is Sharia…
Islam thinks that we’re all fools…but they’re just full of Shia…
An attempt at humour…hey; I do my best!!
EXCELLENT!
I wish I’d said that!
Thank You!
Don’t beat yourself up; we’re going to need a little humor to get through this; even if it’s just a little humor.
Not all anti-theocracy parties are actually racist. Religionist, maybe, certainly anti-islam (since that would be a theocracy) and anti-fascist.
All is not anti-fascist that calls itself anti-fascist (The English UAF is a perfect example) and all is not fascist that calls itself right-wing, or patriotic (EDL).
While theocracy is on the march, we are forced to push back – reguardless of race of the attackers. To mis-quote a
famous freedom fighter – “the true racists are those who believe that the muslims are incapable of living in our society and have to be coddled”
I am anti-theocracy – whatever colour or brand!
Yep, those moderate conservatives are just the folks to save us from the aliens, freaks, and perverts who constitute the Left and are the implacable enemies of European peoples and civilization (definitely including its foundation, Christianity). Someone who states that Mohammedans cannot live peacefully with infidels may be a racist, but he is 100% correct, which is more important. Like the camel’s nose, the protection of one’s native culture and race begins with excluding alien peoples and cultures. Period. At no time and at no place in human history have multiple peoples lived peacefully in the same environment. Where one people is so overwhelmingly dominant that no others consider usurpation, a temporary co-existence can obtain, always subject to attack if any weakness is shown. Just as the WASP ascendency maintained a superficial peace in the US until the WASPs degenerated into *sswipes for the foreigners here, the ultimate lesson in human behavior is that one group will be dominant in any multi-group habitat. You can choose to be on top, or decide to lick your master;s boots, but you cannot establish equality — it’s un-human.
islam IS NOT a religion it is s fascist philosophy trying to disguise itself as one….. http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article188466.ece
Friday sermon stirs millions in Makkah
“Calling for the liberation of Palestine, Al-Sudais said now is the time for Palestinian factions to bury their differences.
“These differences have only added to the miseries of our brothers and sisters in Palestine. This inhuman blockade has made life hellish for them. Now is the time for Muslim countries to unify their ranks and liberate Palestinians from the shackles of this inhuman bondage,” he said. “All differences among regional countries should be and can be resolved in the true spirit of Islam. The best example of our unity is this congregation in which every Muslim from every corner is united through the love of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the Holy Qur’an.”
“The imam repeatedly stressed the value of unity. “Our divisions have given our adversaries the ruse to exploit us. We are fragmented despite being in such a large number. Unity is the key to our well-being. The message of Haj is unity. Let us pray for the unification of Muslims throughout the planet.”
this is the main prayer at their most holy site…after calling for the liberation of palestine he says the “muslim world” must unite (islamic caliphate?) against it’s adversaries …gee i wonder who this “adversary” is
And they chanted
“Death to America” and “Death to Israel”.
Some religion…..
Imagine Easter Mass in Saint Peter’s Square.
The Catholics chanting
“Death to Saudi Arabia” and “Death to Iran”.
“The cure is certainly no better than the disease and both are to be avoided.”
The “right” is rising in most European countries with the Muslim problem from Norway (you really should include the Grönland [Oslo] in the Muslim-conquered West list) to Finland, Italy, etc. Some of the ‘movement’ is the Wilders type of “far right” the EU considers as fascists as the British National Party. The rest is farther right, and then there are the real fascists.
When the government is unwilling to face the Muslim invasion problem, the only option the natives have, after trying elections, is ‘the cure,’ whatever that means in any particular country.
As an avid reader of foreign newspapers, I can testify to the fact that the people of Europe are fed up with the Muslim invasion. The governments are charging and proving those even bringing up the subject of Muslim problem guilty. The native-Europeans have been practically silenced with a few show trials where they’re convicted of ‘hate speech,’ ‘inciting hate against an ethnic group,’ etc. If memory serves, a Finn was imprisoned for 2.5 years for such a hate speech.
The politically correctness is rampant in Europe. No newspaper, for example, informs who the perpetrators of crimes are when they’re Muslims. The Norwegians know that 100% of rapes in Oslo are committed by Muslims, but the newspapers are quiet about it. A couple of days ago the Finns were wondering who are the “Finns’ (word used by the largest newspaper) traveling to Somalia for terror training.
Yup, I’m afraid the the ‘cure’ is coming. I seriously doubt that the Europeans will eventually roll over and become dhimmis. The Swedish police was able to catch a Swede sniping Muslims in Rosengård. I’m certain he will not be the only vigilante.
It’s estimated that most Europe will be Muslim within a few decades – Russia with thousands of nukes in thirty years. I’m certain the multiculturalism and enrichment of Europe will never end Europeans peacefully living in Gaddafi’s tents. I’m as certain the idiots running Europe are unable to see the solution coming.
We’ll not be fond of the ‘cure.’
Thank you for an excellent article Mr. Solway.
The persecutions and prosecutions of Sarrazin, Sabaditsch-Woolf, Wilders, et. al. are just EUropeans beings EUropeans. (Name one century in European history where its governments didn’t punish free speech.) As Canadians say, “Free speech is an American concept.” It’s an Anglo-Saxon idea (those simpletons), alien to the EU (and Canada). Stop trying to impose your colonialist American values on a people (EUropeans) who don’t want them. Leave them alone. Let them celebrate and revel in their diversity! I’m sure the behavior of 21st century EUropean governments will work out as well as the 20th century ones.
Concerning “… parties such as Ruth Evensen’s Danish Freedom Party, Geert Wilders’ Party of Freedom in the Netherlands, Oskar Freysinger’s Swiss People’s Party, Jimmie Akesson’s Sweden Democrats …”
The reference to the Danish party is wrong, it should be Pia Kjærsgård’s Danish Peoples Party. This party has been a crucial support for the Danish right-wing government, in power since 2001. The Danish Peoples Party has also been advising Geert Wilders in relation to the newly formed “Danish Government” in the Netherlands, as well as supporting Jimmie Akesson’s Sweden Democrats.
As the article correctly states those parties are not extreme-right, but center-right, and in some cases even advocating traditional left-wing policies. In Denmark the left has lost the last three elections primarily because many left-leaning voters have swung to the Danish Peoples Party and its immigration-critical and Islam-critical policies … as a result we now see, that even the Socialdemocrats and Socialists are supporting these policies, albeit reluctant and mainly in order not to lose too much of their constituency.
“But immigrant collectives that set themselves apart, that refuse to integrate into the norms and usages of their host population, that reject and denounce the culture that has received them, and that even strive to subvert or destroy the social and political armature in which they are embedded should not be so readily tolerated.”
Ya think??? There was another term for people who tried to overthrow the country in which they lived. It was called TREASON! It is one thing to disagree with the country you’re living in. It is quite another to actively work for the overthrow of that nation. If these people cannot assimilate, then they either need to be deported or be put in jail. Somehow, I doubt that their country of origin would even want them back.
But think about it. A western nation takes in people and in many instances gives them a home, a job, religious freedom, political freedom, an education, social-welfare benefits, and still these same people want to overthrow the country that took them in. Ingrates does not even begin to describe what these people are. They are a fundamental threat to the country they live in and not only should be watched, but should also be evicted or jailed if they lead what amounts to a revolt against the host nation. The Muslim riots in France could be heading our way in a few years and I doubt Americans will have much patience or sympathy for these people. But I don’t expect socialists like Obama to do much about it. The ground zero mosque controversy and his speech in Egypt proved that.
Exile for all shari’aphiles. If they happen to be citizens, try them for treason.
The West is best.
Only after after all the cracks provided for the roaches among us are cemented with truth will reality return. All political niches were created by a treacherous media gradually abusing free speech while giving birth to as many as three variations to each of second generation right, center and left mongrel bastardizations of citizenry.
Survival of the constitution will require resumption of only patriot or traitor classifications with constitutional rewards or penalties strictly applied. Allowance for immediate reprisal deportation of barristers may become necessary since a shortage of good rope has been limited by government control of hemp production.
“On the contrary, the solution depends upon the emergence of the parties of the moderate right that are willing to address the multicultural fragmentation of national unity and revise immigration policies currently in place to render them more appropriate to national requirements. This is the only way to disarm the twin peril of the Islamic advance on the one hand and a nascent fascism on the other.” WELL…..WHAT DO YOU KNOW???? Someone finally has the guts to REAFFIRM AMERICA’S IMMIGRATION POLICY PRIOR TO THE ANTI-WHITE RACIAL PROFILING ACT OF 1965. The answer: KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE. And if you are called names? Keep more of them out. Get some back bone. We are being swallowed whole by some of the most hideous cultures to have ever taken hold in the universe and it’s about time there is a chorus of millions of voices telling the left to shove it. Mexicans and Muslims. That is what we face as a nation. Sounds bigoted? Yes. It is. So what. The left is allowed THEIR BIGOTRY IN SPADES. At least this form of bigotry is based on evidence and self preservation. Read the rationale for our immigration policies prior to Teddy the Groper Kennedy morphing us into a third world dung heap and you will read the world of a sane nation whose leaders loved their people. Our immigration policies are the actions of those who HATE calling their VICTIMS HATERS. We are victims of the left and their satanic ambitions to create a one world hell hole. We are the UN global village now and it ain’t pretty. If the Muslims were kept out of America, would we be getting our crotch grope prior to flying? Think of all the miseries that we would not be facing today, had we kept to the original immigration policies which put PEACE and HARMONY above skin color and accent. Reverse it before it is too late. Immigration is the single biggest threat to our way of life.
big·ot
[big-uht] Show IPA
–noun
a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion
Intolerance to Islamic intolerance is not bigotry, it is enlightened. And necessary for our survival.
Solway’s article is less than his best. In particular, I dislike this “extreme right” business. It implicitly delegitimizes an important range of viewpoints about immigration and cultural cohesion.
I prefer Rudyard Kipling’s words, myself:
The Stranger within my gate,
He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk—
I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,
But not the soul behind.
The men of my own stock,
They may do ill or well,
But they tell the lies I am wonted to,
They are used to the lies I tell;
And we do not need interpreters
When we go to buy or sell.
The Stranger within my gates,
He may be evil or good,
But I cannot tell what powers control—
What reasons sway his mood;
Nor when the Gods of his far-off land
Shall repossess his blood.
The men of my own stock,
Bitter bad they may be,
But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
And see the things I see;
And whatever I think of them and their likes
They think of the likes of me.
This was my father’s belief
And this is also mine:
Let the corn be all one sheaf—
And the grapes be all one vine,
Ere our children’s teeth are set on edge
By bitter bread and wine.
Kipling also said…”East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”.
“The Ballad of East and West” goes on to say:
East is East and WEst is West and never the twain shall meet
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great judgement seat.
But there is neither East nor West, Border nor breed nor birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the Earth.
In other words the actual message of the poem is the importance of the individual’s strength of character and courage, not his race, nor his religion, nor his antecedents, nor where he came from. You can hardly ask for a stronger call to judge a man by his character, accomplishments, and deeds, and not by his group or birth, than this poem of Kipling’s.
The key word here seems to be: “Till…”
It’s a long, long time ’till Judgement.
Kipling is often berated for the phrase “White Man’s Buden”, but if you look up the original source (a good idea seeing how people deliberately quote out of context or outright lie),you will find that the poem is about picking up the hard work of civilization and standing proudly on your own two feet, no matter what your race!
I remember when Kipling was required reading in schools. Too bad that’s passed on.
With Leftists among the Europeans, and conservative Christians among the Arabs (they do exist), Rudyard’s poem no longer applies. The fault lines are not racial.
Should I have said race OR culture?
It’s the jihad, stupid! As Europe discovered once before, it won’t stop by itself. And now we see, as long as there’s Islam, it won’t stop at all. Frakked.
Quite a wonderful piece, David. However, I still wonder if we are staring at the unmade bed and tsk-ing at how untidy it is, while ignoring the bedfellows unmaking of it.
There is a common refrain among those of us on the center-right (representative of a majority in the U.S. for sure, possibly in parts of Western Europe as well), that the left and its lapdog media are Utopian “do-gooders” who have some silly notions, a basket of flower petals, and an innocence of purpose that “allows” for abuse by “others”.
If I may, this is not merely an utter misread, it is a dangerous and destructive delusion.
It is as if we watch the train crash in slow motion, at once horrified and yet, somehow mesmerized by the twisted wreckage and physical, emotional, spiritual carnage left in its wake.
Our minds become fuzzy with shock, reality is blurred, we move in a dreamlike state of confusion and denial.
Is it a “coincidence” that the “tear down the system” types often use the precise language, tactics, methodology, adopting each other’s words and phrases such that the overlap in indistinguishable? “Coincidence”, …really?
Hidden behind “populist” bromides, masquerading as “inclusive”, but intending the steady, relentless, erosion of the will, mores and constitution (large C and small c) of the unwitting people it seeks to replace. Either via attrition or accretion.
The sooner we come to realize that this game is on, that we are in for the battle against a determined enemy, rather than merely needing to scold a few silly harmless twits who hold hippy notions and seek nothing more than peace, harmony and goodwill, the sooner we can confront the real issues, solve the real problems, address the real solutions.
This is a long con and we are the marks. The “tear down the system” types are great at disguising their intent and masquerading as the “good guys”. It is high time that we turn and confront those who mean to destroy us from the inside. We continue the denial of this seminal fact at our peril.
Multiculturalism, whether at the hands of Islamic world domination fanatics, Mexican border crashers, communist infiltrators, or leftist anarchists is water drawn from the same poisoned well. It has the same net effect, however, in combination, it is a disease that invades the body virulently, and multiplies geometrically, not arithmetically.
The lapdog media is not “fooled” by it, they are in it up to their eyeballs. And, if we refuse to call an enemy by his name, we champion his cause by our timid and limp cowering at his disingenuous insults surely to come, if we dared.
We have but two question to ask ourselves.
Is this a nation worth preserving? Are we willing to stand and be counted among those who will preserve it?
They are a fundamental threat to the country they live in and not only should be watched, but should also be evicted or jailed if they lead what amounts to a revolt against the host nation.
Jailing and deportation are expensive and would result in civil unrest. A rational immigration policy would acknowledge the reality that Islam is incompatible with assimilation, democracy and freedom. The only Muslims who should be allowed in are ex-Muslims fleeing the most effective totalitarian political system known to man.
Either way…the civil unrest has already started. And it was muslims who dropped the gauntlet beginning on 911 and continuing to this day.
We’ll have to respond sooner than later. The latter ensures our demise and more unrest and conflict. Are we not worth fighting for? Forget Afghanistan….we need to begin again right here.
A beautifully written article but thoroughly disturbing.Everyone, everywhere, is being painted into a corner and we all know the results of those sort of situations- we will have to fight our way out in the end,when conditions become insufferable.
The most unfortunate aspect is that most of the blood shed could be avoided, or could have been avoided, by using a common sense approach to immigration and enforcing the laws already established.
I can’t see that happening until something drastic occurs and many people find their very existence threatened.
I am coming to believe that all these advocates of the politically correct, multi cultural, morally equivalent bent are really just cowards who hate life, are too afraid to live life and want to take vengence on anyone who has loved life-misery loves company.
As a side note on Hungary’s Jobbik Party’s alleged attempts to use the media and ruling elite’s islamophilia for political gains, one of its most prominent members, Krisztina Morvai, has worn a keffiyeh around her neck while giving incendiary anti-Israel and pro-fakestinian speeches. Jobbik’s view of mohammedanism are similar to Hitler’s views of Amin al-Husseini, the nazi mufti of Jerusalem, and its neo-nazi members see muslims as allies, rather than enemies, due to their shared hatred of Jews.
Thanks for this article. Are we in the West suffering from myopia?
While the shah governed Iran, he sent young people to the US to college. I had several friends among those students (the Iran govt paid their living expenses and costs with the understanding they would return to Iran and work to modernize the country.) They were friendly, and their day-to-day moral code was very much the same as my Christian code.
After 9/11, I read about the Muslim faith, in an effort to reconcile what I knew of those students’ beliefs and the hatred for the West which is represented by Jihad. Since the 1960′s, American entertainment has been anti-Christian, and anti-Muslim, as the theme is ‘if it feels good, it’s ok.’ Atheists using the ACLU obliterated public prayer. Media give the impression that Americans are like the ancient Romans, morally bankrupt.
The West has turned away from the beliefs and moral code that brought freedom and federalism, and many have turned to paganism via environmentalism and animalism. Czech president Vaclav Havel has described Europe as ‘the first atheistic civilization in the history of mankind’. Studies show that a high percentage of failing school children live in single-parent homes as the family has been destroyed by secular ideas. Abortion has kept the birth rate at historic levels in both Europe and the U.S. (Merkel cited birthrate as the reason for importing Muslims to fill the void.)
While traditional religions, including Islam and Christianity, are thriving and growing in the developing world, the West is dominated by secularism. Since many in the developing world view the West as godless, might not this Muslim ‘invasion’ be a re-play of the old Western efforts to save the native Americans from their pagan ways?
I am just a curious seeker of understanding. I’ve read D’Sousa’s well-researched books, including “What’s So Great About America?” I also remember McLuhan’s predictions of the electronic age, which has enabled the communication necessary for scattered groups of idealogues to act in unison. Of course, it has also enabled freedom of speech and the truth to be made available to those who strive for non-corrupt governance.
What will our future hold? Common sense tells me that the people with the largest families will decide the future.
More Kipling:
“The Saxon is not like us Normans, his manners are not so polite
But he never means anything serious till he talks of justice and right
When he stands like an ox in the furrow with his sullen set eyes on your own
And grumbles ‘This isn’t fair dealing,’ my son leave the Saxon alone.”
When we do it, it’s called colonisation or Western imperialism. When they do it, it’s called multiculturalism or diversity.
They come and are entitled to all our society offers. A disproportionate number live on welfare. Another disproportionate number is incarcerated in prisons or have criminal records. Yet another very large group wish to replace our law with shari’ah. What of benefit do they actually bring?
Meanwhile we reside in their lands. We give aid, we give technology and engineering. We give trade. We give medical advancement. We give irrigation, running water and modern farming methods.
That’s the deal as it stands. It’s there for all to see.
So if their Islamic wonderlands are so great why the imbalance and why do so many clamour for our passports and visas?
Merely to replicate what they’ve fled from? Or to create a society where we dhimmi’s do the hard lifting and pay the jizya whilst they reap the comfort?
Islam is regressing. The ideal as we see in any Islamic country is return to their so called golden age but that was in the fourteenth century and so far divorced from modern standards comparison is all but impossible.
Due to the inexorable influx of immigration this is also our fate yet our politicians welcome with open arms.
The good news? We have Geert Wilders, Thilo Sarrazin and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Woolf, who despite all efforts to silence them continue the defence. They understand the indiginous people, they understand the corrosive effect Islam is inflicting upon Europe and they understand what is needed to combat this foe which makes the old one, communism look like a spot of community organising.
Europeans are now awakening and the worm is turning. Violence will no doubt escalate and we’ve seen Muslim rioting already when the plans are thwarted or we practice free expression.
It won’t be an easy ride but it’s the only one we have left.
>”Clearly, the allegory may not be exact in all its particulars, though it is on the whole a valid, if somewhat lurid, picture of what goes by the name of multiculturalism. What we call “multiculturalism” is not to be construed as identical to “diversity.”<
Your allegory is exactly right and applies to two groups in USA in particular. One group is trying to impose their religion on us and the other group is trying to impose their language on us and totally refuses to accept English. We get to remove those who do not want to assimilate and live by the rules and laws of the host country. There is nothing wrong with "multiculturalism" and "diversity" as long as the incoming group does not try impose their culture, religion on others. Nobody is asking them to lose their own culture,language, etc but they should expect the host to adopt their ways!! If they do not assimilate, they have no place here and they should be sent back wherever they came from!!1
correction to: “….etc but they should expect the host to adopt their ways!! If they do not assimilate, they have no..”
..etc but they should not expect the host to adopt their ways!!…
Two points, one dealing with economics the other with demography:
There’s something which is central in economic analysis, and goes by the term “scale effects.” Simply put, when the quantity of some element is small enough in reference to a background economic structure, then its effect (be that negative or positive) is negligible. We call this condition, a “no externality” or “no scale effect” situation. While when the quantity exceeds some threshold level, “scale effects” or “externalities” set in.
Another point to be made is related to the “population dynamics” issue from demography: when two distinct population groups in a demographic system grow at different rates, the larger group growing at a slower rate while the smaller group at a higher rate, there comes a time (depending on the relative magnitude of these two rates) when the currently smaller group will overtake in size the currently larger one.
Now, why are these two points of relevance here? To make clear that as long as this “multicultural” effects remain small, they don’t matter much. But as soon as they attain some critical mass, they do matter and in fact they matter greatly now and far more importantly so in the future.
An exit point: let’s assume that only 1% of the global islamic population is “terrorist” related and 99% isn’t; where did this 1% originate over generations? From the 99%, since “terrorists” are not a self-contained and breeding population group. Meaning, that the future terrorists will come from the currently “peaceful” muslim group.
The West, as I have said in the past in the pages of PJM, is currently too weak, timid and relactant to confront islam; they know it and we know it. Western “suicidal liberalism” is entrenched, and the half measures suggested in this article won’t do a thing, because we aren’t brave enough to confront the threat head on and look the enemy in the eye.
Staring down the enemy can never be an effective attribute among government employees that have been force fed by neurotic ideologues methodically installed in high influence low profile positions. Rampant PC haze used as denial of fact within mass media can be thwarted with severe bottom line adjustments by boycott of all their advertised products and services.
Consider it diligent to ascertain reliability of both friend and foe prior to crossing a line drawn in the dust since it’s not likely to be for a game of hopscotch. Substantiating your own determination is imperative before any head on action begins with no provision for timeouts and absolutely no one in high office willing to quote Patrick Henry or Nathan Hale.
I was so naive after 9/11: I truly believed that the attacks on our cities and 3,000 dead would wake up those who had pooh-poohed terrorism and would make our politicians finally and once and for all take a strong stance against islamic terror.
How wrong I was: instead of 9/11 being our Pearl Harbor, it has become the American Heroshima and Nagasaki. Nearly 10 years after 9/11, ground zero is still a zero, with no new Twin Towers replacing the ones destroyed, and a victory mosque is the only structure that is a sure thing for the area. Criticism of Islam has become a greater crime against humanity than terrorism, and radical Islamic sensibilities are paramount. Our soldiers are nothing but cannon fodder in Iraq and Afghanistan to make these nations safe for Shariah with PC rules of engagement to ensure a 100 year war and ultimate defeat. It is as if 9/11 was a slow motion nuke dropped on our soil, and is slowly collapsing our society from within, while our politicians are surendering our culture and constitution to Shariah law, and our homeland security makes Americans the enemy while illegals and jihadis have free reign over the land.
And, most striking of all, only seven years later, we put up as President someone by the name of “Barack Hussein Obama” !
Who would have thought that back on 9/11/2001 ?
Simply unthinkable.
So unthinkable that I held my nose as I voted for the RINO. I never thought I’d see this in my lifetime. Someone should stick a fork in America, turn it over,,, it’s done.
Train;
I had meant my post as a reply to your effort above, (wrong button, sorry).
Once again, good snakes and bad snakes,,, take your pick.
What is happening to our country is simply unthinkable!!! But who is responsible for this kind if stupid behavior?? To me MSM, the liberals, academics, are all responsible to promote political correctness which is the root cause of many of our problems. When we can’t honestly and truthfully identify the cause of the problem, how can we ever hope to solve the problem??
Trainwreck
Your comment is one of the most insightful I have scene to describe the current depressing situation. Unbelievably, a mere seven years after 9/11, 52% of the American electorate voted for a man who had no qualifications, and about whom they knew virtually nothing, to be their President. The fact that this man was raised as a Muslim seemed to play no part in their decision. Those who questioned this man’s eligibility by asking for his long form birth certificate were dismissed as being as crazy as the loons who accused Bush of conspiring (while Governor of Texas) – since we know that the attacks were in the planning stages when he occupied that position – with Osama bin Laden to attack his own country and thereby commit treason and subject himself to execution.
A victory Mosque is going to be erected at Ground Zero and an Islamic Crescent at Shanksville Pa (so much for the heroism of Todd Beamer and the others on Flight 93) and there is barely a peep of protest of the former and near universal ignorance of the latter.
Clearly, with the election of the Barack Hussein Obama (whoever he is) the USA is now suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
We have a saying in Texas; “the only good snake is a dead snake”. That’s the one snake you can be sure won’t bite you. I’m starting to feel the same way about Muslims.
The liberal platitude that there are lots of “good” Muslims amongst the billion or so of them, negates the fact that even if only 1% are bad jihadi and terroristic radicals, that number of irrational nut jobs wanting to kill me is still huge. Frankly, I’m not willing to let this be swept under some big UN rug in the name of diversity. It is past time for Washington to grow a set and start kicking ass and taking names.
Just think, once we finished off the job with the Muslims, we could actually use all that military manpower to secure our borders.
The problem with this post is that you are worried about “irrational nut jobs” while being one at the same time. Your cure is “no better than the disease”.
@Nate
Regardless, the ‘cure’ is coming and it will not be pleasant to anyone.
The fault lies with the asinine EU governments letting this parasitic invasion to occur. Who do you call a ‘nutjob’ then?
The peoples of Europe have the right to defend their countries against all enemies, foreign and domestic with whatever means. Surviving this jihad of the lands of Islam is the only priority.
لاتقلق/ لا تقلقي!
There is a massive wind blowing and it is going to bring no less than the re-emergence of European peoples confident re-assertion of their culture and civilization, and the rights of their tribes to equal treatment before the law.
It cant happen fast enough.
I was reading The Party Program of the Danish People’s Party today. In brief:
http://www.danskfolkeparti.dk/The_Party_Program_of_the_Danish_Peoples_Party.asp
“The aim of the Danish People’s Party is to assert Denmark’s independence, to guarantee the freedom of the Danish people in their own country, and to preserve and promote representative government and the monarchy.
“Denmark’s constitutional monarchy must be preserved.
“The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church is the church of the Danish people.
“Danish independence and freedom are the primary objectives of Danish foreign policy.
The Danish People’s Party wishes friendly and dynamic cooperation with all the democratic and freedom-loving peoples of the world, but we will not allow Denmark to surrender its sovereignty.
“The country is founded on the Danish cultural heritage and therefore, Danish culture must be preserved and strengthened.
This culture consists of the sum of the Danish people’s history, experience, beliefs, language and customs. Preservation and further development of this culture is crucial to the country’s survival as a free and enlightened society.
“Denmark is not an immigrant-country and never has been. Thus we will not accept transformation to a multiethnic society.
Denmark belongs to the Danes and its citizens must be able to live in a secure community founded on the rule of law, which develops along the lines of Danish culture.
It ought to be possible to absorb foreigners into Danish society provided however, that this does not put security and democratic government at risk. To a limited extent and according to special rules and in conformity with the stipulations of the Constitution, foreign nationals should be able to obtain Danish citizenship.”
The Pia Kjærsgaard run Dansk Folkeparti is considered more or less fascist in Denmark, as is the Norwegian Progress Party run by Ms. Siv Jensen.
As far as I’ve been able to comprehend the native’s in many Scandinavian countries, they’re more than ready to take their countries back. The Norwegians and Finns have the means, the Danish and Swedes need to arm up.
But, you’re absolutely correct, the winds of anti-jihad are blowing
The problem is that once upon a time in the West the European pioneer was the guest–of course, the indigenous Indians were also prior invading explorers from Eurasia too. Basically, the Indians had twenty thousand years to develop condos and blew it. Ditto for the Muslims who stayed home in Mecca when unable to get to Cordoba to spread the new dispensation. The modern spoiled urban sons and daughters of those European pioneers have been on a guilt trip ever since, trying to make amends for a violent process of change in which an “advanced” culture displaced the “savages.” Apparently the new ethical paradigm for the historical justice and reparations crowd is that the savages are supposed to displace the “culturally advanced,” which is a politically incorrect term in our relativistic multicultural age. We’re all equal now.
And less in the near future.
Question is: what are we doing about it?
Can anything be done about it?
I love your comment. In the politically correct scenario today, success at technology equals immorality and failure equals morality. Therefore, the native Americans weren’t quite human as they apparently lacked the qualities of racism, murder, slavery and conquest. What they really lacked were machine guns. There was no ‘theft’ of America, merely a more successful group of humans than another. There is no morality attached to success or failure in this regard native Americans killed and conquered one another with as much zeal as anyone else and what they really lament is their own lack of bullets and population to fight back. Does any fool really believe the Aztecs would have eschewed conquering Europe had they the means?
I’ve seen our future, and it’s called Yugoslavia. For years the liberals have pronounced as a fait accompli that we in the West will converge into a new multiracial identity, not unlike much of Brazil. But I think the Yugoslavian model is a closer approximation. In Yugoslavia you had various subgroups, each with their own animus against the others, but with the lid of that pressure cooker kept on by the weight of a strong central government. In our case, it’s not so much a lid on a pressure cooker that keeps everything from boiling over, but more like the relief valves of economic mobility and ample land. The well documented phenomenon of “white flight” is the quintessential example.
But in Yugoslavia the heavy weight of central government fell off the pot when that country entered the new post-Soviet reality, and the Bosnians, Croats, and Serbs were akin to fighting dogs let off their leashes. The severely troubled economy threatens to force us in the West into our own new reality.
This article makes many pertinent observations, but I think the most important one is the observation that mainstream political discourse has pushed us to this cliff edge by its failure to address the peoples’ real concerns about the infiltration and appropriation of their own countries. I fear that much ugliness that could have been avoided will now become an inevitability.
Fortunately for you people, I never discuss religion or politics in polite company.
Well, thanks for sparing us that.
During the rise of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and the other fine gentlemen of the 20th century, most of the Germans, Russians, Chinese etc were simply onlookers, bystanders not willing to say something or do anything, too. So, thanks for letting us know.
Karl Marx was the author of the statement “Never discuss Religion and Politics” to keep the masses under control. Political Correctness at at it’s utmost place of lies and contridictions. Don’t be fooled! We must stand up for our Christian beliefs. Don’t back down!! To quote a great man: “Political correctness is tyranny with manners.” Charlton Heston, Actor & Activist in the NRA.
Good analogy of Islam’s squatting in the West, even if the early paragraphs were a little over the top. Few people, though, other than Muslims or Liberals, would be offended by them. But, as the author says, liberals and leftists are the real dilemma now because of their investment in the multicultural illusion. And, although they do need to feel good about themselves, their larger aim is to fill the West up with what they believe will be a very grateful voter base, even if this base might eventually dispossess them.
They’re smarter than that and quite a bit more vicious; their objective is to burry the “evil” West for its “sinful” and “murderous” past, and disrupt and reverse its economic (capitalist) and social (demographic) policies which are “destroying the planet.”
I’m not sure we really know our fellow losers, pardon me, liberals. They’re at the core of our troubles, the rootcause of our problems; islam is simply taking advantage of it – they saw a sucker and they’re going for the jugular. When are we going to really confront them (the liberals)? Are we going to let them demolish the House we’ve built ? Or, to put it differently, are we going to allow them to “fundamentally transform” America and the West ?
Bingo! …for this phrase of yours……”to fill the West up with what they believe will be a very grateful voter base….
I’d like to point out that our immediate problem is with our politicians in Congress…we’ve got to elect our Congress(s) with an ample majority of the Members being willing to forego personal longevity/office-tenure inside our taxpayer supported walls, and instead vote in favor of Bills which maintain America first. We, the currently legitimate citizens, are that voter base.
Along with that astonishing new emphasis, we must abolish the Seniority system which put the likes of a Teddy Kennedy as chairman of the Judiciary (!) Committee, and a Charlie Rangel ensconced in the Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Much easier said than done, alas. These guys are always sniffing the air for votes, not only ballot day votes. Frankly, I’m not optimistic on that score. It seems to go against the ingrained nature of those seeking to be Members of Congress. (..naturally, there’ll be vigorous denial on that point..)
Right now we’ve got a double-speak set of politicians. We must never, ever, elect another President whose only qualifications are an oft-flashed fine set of teeth… and …c h a r i s m a .
Those who voted for B.Hussein Obama have only themselves to blame.
I like your column:
the stupidity of the political elites has created the conditions for a bloody fight and you look for a way to avoid the violence and the horror.
Good for you.
As I have already said some time ago, we need to stop transferring the West’s wealth into the pockets of the Saudis and co. THAT is the only true weapon that we have to stop the islamic conquest of the West.
The money that we spend for oil comes back to buy our politicians, our newspapers and TVs, our universities.
If this situation does not change, there will be no way for a moderate answer to the problem of the islamic conquest of the West , because the problem will become too big for any moderate answer.
But of course the same elites that have created the opening in the West’s defense control the development of drilling, of coal technology and of nuclear power plants, so we are in a circle.
True elites, enlightened by the Love of God, would be able to see the danger in our future and the risk of enormous bloodshed.
It seems we don’t have them.
“Your new guests refuse to participate in your home life. They deplete your budget, may not even learn your language, install a V-chip in your computer to prevent the normal range of your communications, and in the course of time begin agitating to introduce a new set of house rules which you, the proprietor, are expected to abide by. It is quite possible that you return one evening to discover that your kids have been traumatized and the house is in shambles. It may happen as you set off for work in the morning, you find your car has been torched.”
Except for the language part, you’ve given a perfect description of Jews in America.
Hunh? What??? In terms of assimilation, not to mention celebrating the “host” culture (quote marks because this distinction really can’t be made), who does it better and more enthusiastically than Jews? What about the Hollywood moguls who have given us so much American iconography (more in the “golden age” than now, if you want to quibble). What about the Jews of German Europe who were such cultural lights … including those who financed or conducted Wagner’s operas?
Jewish additions to American culture have hardly “wrecked” it … said the gal once caught using “schlep” and “y’all” in the same sentence.
Oh, forgive me, y’all, for having fed this troll.
….the multicultural experiment, as originally conceived, was a social cul-de-sac, a license freely given for the seizure of natural rights and eviction of the host from a portion of his dwelling — perhaps, ultimately, to become a paying, second-class occupant in what was once his own house.
Imam Rauf and his creepy cronies in the Muslim Brotherhood are happily enabled by the liberal/socialist agenda.
(Jean-François Revel, Last Exit to Utopia, writes of their shared loathing of the U.S. and Israel and an even deeper connection in socialism’s (alleged) contempt for capitalism and radical Islam’s (alleged) contempt for modernity.)
“Among the doctrinal sources cited by Osama bin Laden, one finds not only the Quran but also the works of Noam Chomsky.”
ISLAM AND MARXISM – A MARRIAGE MADE IN ALLAH’S SOCIALIST PARADISE
“…It just so happens, that these tenets (multiculturalism, political
correctness, and radical environmentalism) represent three of the four
pillars that are the foundation of an evolving epistemological, ethical
and political strategy that the socialist remnants in the world have
conceptualized and implemented to prevent their ideology from entering
the dustbin of history.”
Well said, Mr. Solway, but ultimately, sensible opposition to multiculturalism from yourself and others will be opposed by it’s proponents by treating you as if you were as racist and radical as the fringe right-wing groups in question. It’s a matter of choosing the battlefield. This applies to many an issue with the progressives, and taking back our universities from what my Ottawa Citizen friend calls the ’60′s squalor’ may be a good choice.
What is needed is for more people who don’t have any connection to Islam other than a neighbour is Muslim, to have more affinity with Mortimer Adler
rather than with Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Dewey, and Bertrand Russell, when it comes to what is used as the yardstick to size up people and events.
Without that as a starting point, then the prospects are the same for peace
without truth.
If all you people agree that Islam is not a forgiving society,then why don’t you elect people to do something about it before it is too late.
I can’t stand the buggers myself and have moved to a rural town where there are very few.
I have a problem with one part of the article, and it’s this:
“We are now on very delicate ground as we try to address the central question, which is: what to do? We are a liberal democracy and are bound to uphold the axial principles that sustain it: freedom of speech and of the press, freedom of assembly, the dispensation of impartial justice, habeas corpus, the right to civil and legal protections. These are codes and scruples that cannot be easily bent or violated in endeavoring to deal with the problem.”
No, no, no! There is no danger to Western values. We must only insist on RECIPROCITY.
I seriously don’t get why more people cannot reconcile reciprocity with Western values. Reciprocity should be the foundation on which all other rights rest.
You want free speech and the right to practice your religion? Then allow it for your neighbors. If you cannot comply with granting freedoms to your neighbors that you want for yourselves, there are other countries which might be willing to take you, but this isn’t one of them.
It’s basically phrasing the Golden Rule as a sternly worded command, backed up with the threat of force: Do unto others/us as you would have them/us do until you. Or else.
The problem here is not JUST what everyone here is commenting on and it NOT just the left that is destroying our world.
There is an snake in the room. It has fornicated with the donkey on the left and the elephant on the right. They are all drunk with its fornications.
The snake has given tens of billions to fund and create so much of the liberal fascism that rules our campuses and our media. It has its tail wrapped thru Wall Street and into the hearts of every part of economy and thru them it satisfies and sustains so many of those Country Club elites who are as fierce a defendant of its interests and goals as is the most ardent Demoncrap idiot.
One President held hands with the snake and willingly seduced himself to it, ignoring its most egregious poisonings and bloody fang marks into every aspect of our national soul. The other President bowed before the snakes head as if to a deity.
The snake is behind almost every aspect of what ills us. The snake is only really opposed by another serpent who is just as hostile to us, more apt to strike but without the charm or influence of the first. They are both evil but the one is by far the worst.
The snake is Saudi Arabia. So long as we allow that snake to live, will it ever seek to wrap the whole earth withing its terrible and foul coils and squeeze the very life out of all of mankind.
Saudi Arabia must die if we are to live.
“The antidote to radical Islam is moderate Islam”
I respectfully take issue with Dr. Pipes.
The antidote to radical Islam is strong democracy – which, in turn, provices a safe space where moderation can take hold and grow.
Mr. Solway,
That is the whole point of allowing them in. Them, and illegal aliens. It helps get the American culture destroyed, and much easier to get the North American Union in place.
You have pointed the finger at the CFR game plan. The CFR North American Union is on the web for all to see.
Islam is just a tool to get there.
All legal immigration to the US should be stopped and the Constitution should not be viewed as constraining us to the point where it has merely become a suicide pact at the service of a Third World baby boom. The 12-15 million illegal aliens in the US should be systematically rooted out using the many facets of our bureaucracy and repatriated. This is common sense. Muslims are as nice a people as anyone but their heady identification with Islam makes them poor neighbors. I have been in Egypt for 9 months. They are great people but their eyes glaze over when they talk about Israel or the US government. Perfectly reasonable people here actually believe that Israel wants the entirety of the middle east and that the US supports Israel. There is no mention of how several million jews would occupy the territory of hundreds of millions of Arabs and muslims. Reason is not a big plus in the middle east. I have been told that anything short of having an A-bomb dropped on a city in conflict is considered a win by Islam and so you have the ‘victory’ of 1973 over Israel complete with museum in Cairo and 6th of Oct. this and 6 of Oct. that. These are not people you want in the US as there is no concept of the greater good amongst them and a muslim is always right – always. It is implicit that the real goal in Israel is to have no Israel – the West Bank won’t do it my friends. This is a collision course. No more immigration. The US is not an airport but has a European/Christian based culture and I am not a baggage handler for Third World baby boomers. The only reason people from the Third World go to the West is because of the West’s innate brilliance at the social and technological level. They can’t live with us and they can’t live without us. This internal conflict creates jealousies on a massive level. They feel as if they have permanent 2nd class status which is unacceptable within Islam because of their own inability to even reverse engineer a ball point pen. Naturally their is no reality here to discuss and so there must be a reason for this, i.e., racism, imperialism, etc. Innate lack of cultural brilliance is never an issue and so Haitians rioting against U.N. peacekeepers trying to stabilize that decrepit half of the island are just fine and debauched Detroit a sign of European unfairness towards black folks. In the multicult reality, Haitians and the inhabitants of inner city Detroit are all string theorist’s held back by European intransigence towards the idea of equality with others while Islam itself is intolerant of others. Christians in Egypt, some 16% of the population, are second class citizens, tolerated as long as they are not fully equal. While decrying Euro America as endemically racist, not so casual racist’s Obama and Holder and their wives want the US to look at life through the lens of 12% of the populace who cannot get their heads out of 1950 and other cultures want their own lens to be predominant. Every lens is considered but Christian Europeans who are just the baggage handlers.
When the intrusive camel’s nose appears under the tent there is no chance for a kill shot. It does, however, present a perfect target for pepper in the nostrils to encourage immediate departure and discourage return.
Bring on the pepper.
Allowing a camel’s nose into your dooryard,
is three steps away from you being barred.
h2AmweiWay
Karl Marx was the author of the statement “Never discuss Religion and Politics” to keep the masses under control.
No, actually it was my first employer. When he found out that I was screwing his part time secretary, who was his daughter, he also advised me to never dip my pen in company ink again if I knew what was good for me.
Mr. Solway, each time I read one of your articles I am so glad that you are writing. The thought that goes into each one, the erudition, and even the aid to my advancing vocabulary (!)… I thank you. But most of all for the clear thinking and presentation.
“But there is more to it. Failing to act in a meaningful way will produce intermediate results we would have preferred to evade, namely the irruption of civil discord and possibly flat-out violence, as far right political parties shed their fringe status and capitalize on growing citizen discontent to acquire parliamentary and legislative sway.”
So, basically, you are threatening violence via radical right wing groups unless the right wing gets its way. Right? That’s the going interpretation of statements likes this, yes?
Woe betide anyone who plans to burn a holy book, for the government will not stand in his way! Woe! Oh woe!
Do not defy the mosque several blocks from Ground Zero or the powers that be will not defy you! Oh my! I cry!
My metaphorical car, it burns! My metaphorical house, it smolders! My metaphorical children, they cry out! For I have heard there are Muslims in America, I have been told they hate my freedoms, and I even saw a woman in a burqa, violating my Constitutional right to look her in the face!
Another troll.
Why don’t you add -
If you dare draw a cartoon about Muhammad expect rioting and deaths
If you want to publish a book about the cartoons at Yale University Press, look to have it censored and the cartoons taken out.
Worst, if you are a Muslim who happens to speak out against Islam, your life as you know it has ended. Rushdie hasn’t come out of his hole yet. And lately this has been extended to non-Muslims as well, like the lady from Seattle who was forced into hiding.
Yes our first amendment rights are getting stronger by the day
“But there is more to it. Failing to act in a meaningful way will produce intermediate results we would have preferred to evade, namely the irruption of civil discord and possibly flat-out violence, as far right political parties shed their fringe status and capitalize on growing citizen discontent to acquire parliamentary and legislative sway.”
Say what ?
“So, basically, you are threatening violence via radical right wing groups unless the right wing gets its way. Right?”
That is not what I took away from that statement. It looks to be more of a reasonable prediction based on human nature/behaviour where governments act stupidly in ignoring the concerns of the people.
but I have not been made privyHow could one extrapolate “threat” from someone interested in finding a solution to an escalating/increasingly dangerous and widespread cultural conflict ?
In addition, the only threats so far, especially of violence, I have heard being made(published), and they are too numerous to count, are emanating from the other part of this equation-not radical right wing organizations.
However, radical anything would not surprise me much and all radicals deserve one another imo.
“That’s the going interpretation of statements likes this, yes?”
Well, no.
“.. I have been told they hate my freedoms,”
Well, yeah, pretty much they do see many of our freedoms as unholy/satanic- manmade,debauched,hedonistic, and otherwise a threat to their complete theocratic control on every aspect of life.
“and I even saw a woman in a burqa, violating my Constitutional right to look her in the face!”
That can become a problem. I am not allowed to hide my identity either and masked faces carry a very bad connotation in this culture-hard cheese. Deal with it.
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff trial in Austria starts next week. Please spread the word about this far and wide.